Rogério Sganzerla

Personal Info

Birthday

November 26, 1946

Day of Death

2004-01-09

(57 years old)

Place of Birth

Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Rogério Sganzerla

Biography

Rogério Sganzerla (1946 — 2004) was a Brazilian filmmaker and one of the main names of the Cinema de Invenção (or Cinema Marginal) underground movement. Influenced by Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, and José Mojica Marins, Sganzerla often used clichés from film noir and pornochanchadas.

Irony, narrative subversion and collage were trademarks of his film aesthetics. Sganzerla was born in Joaçaba, in the state of Santa Catarina, but moved with his family to São Paulo at a very young age, living there for most of his life. During the 1960s he wrote for the newspaper "O Estado de S.

Known For

The Red Light Bandit

Filmography

2021
The Good Cinema
as Self
2020
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
as Self (archive footage)
Ivan, the TerrirBle
as Self (archive footage)
2019
A Mulher da Luz Própria
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
as Self
2014
Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
as Self (archive footage)
2005
A Marca do Terrir
as Self
A Miss e o Dinossauro
as Himself (archive footage) / (Voz em Off)
2003
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
as Self
O Galante Rei da Boca
as Himself
1992
Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália
as Self
1991
Rogério Sganzerla Send His Message to Brazil
as Himself
1978
The Universe of Mojica Marins
as Self
Horror Palace Hotel
as Himself
1968
The Red Light Bandit
as Man in the theater (uncredited)